Sts. Primus and Felician

Suffered martyrdom about 304 in the
Diocletian persecution. The "Martyrologium Hieronymianum"
(ed. De Rossi-Duchesne, 77) gives under 9 June the names of Primus
and Felician who were buried at the fourteenth milestone of the
Via Nomentana (near Nomentum, now Mentana). They were evidently
from Nomentum. This notice comes from the catalogue of Roman
martyrs of the fourth century. In 648 Pope Theodore translated the
bones of the two saints to the Roman Church of San Stefano, under
an altar erected in their honour (Liber Pontificalis, I, 332),
where they remain. Their feast is still observed on 9 June.